INDUSTRIES / BUILDING MATERIALS
Real-time visibility for Building Material Production environments
Building material production environments run hot, dusty, and heavy. Intenseye helps safety teams detect serious-injury risks across kilns, furnaces, crushers, conveyors, batch plants, quarries, and haul-truck routes before they injure workers or stop production.
50+
high-energy hazards detected out of the box
24/7
on every plant and yard, every shift
~0.8s
to a machine stop at a crusher or conveyor
AI SAFETY FOR BUILDING MATERIALS
Why these floors are hard to keep safe.
Detect
50+ high-energy hazards, the instant they appear.
Warn & stop
A voice warning, or a machine stop in ~0.8s.
Prove
Leading indicators that show risk falling.
Cement kilns, glass furnaces, crushers and conveyors, silos, and the heaviest mobile equipment in industry - all in dust and heat, around the clock. That mix is exactly where the serious injuries happen.
Intenseye uses computer vision on the cameras you already run (plus Sentinel Thermal for heat and early fire) to detect the unsafe acts and conditions that cause SIFs, in real time: warning workers, stopping machines, and proving risk is falling across every plant and shift.
WHERE THE SIFs COME FROMFour hazards drive the worst
Four hazards drive the worst
injuries - Intenseye sees them coming.
We act on the leading signal, the unsafe act, the moment it happens – not the lagging injury report that only counts people after they're hurt.
USE CASES ON THE FLOOR
The use cases that matter on a building-materials floor.
50+ detections, organized the way plant and quarry safety teams think - from the haul road to the crusher to the kiln. Pick a scenario to see what Intenseye watches, and why each one matters on a real floor.
Categories
8
Categories
32
Hazard types
Heavy mobile equipment & vehicle–pedestrian
Learn more Flags the proximity and warns driver and pedestrian where haul trucks, loaders, and ready-mix cross people.
Hazards detected
- Pedestrian in haul-truck pathCRITICALPerson on foot in an active haul-truck path.
- Person in equipment blind spotCRITICALWorker in the blind spot of heavy equipment.
- Over-speed in pedestrian zoneMODERATEVehicle above the limit in a pedestrian zone.
- Person in dump / load zoneCRITICALWorker inside an active dump or load zone.
THE DIFFERENTIATORMost safety AI just watches.
Most safety AI just watches.
Intenseye steps in.
A worker reaches into a running conveyor. Same hazard, same instant - but observation only logs the risk. Intervention prevents the injury.
Observe-only AIJust watches
Steps inThe moment
Reach-in at a running conveyor logged “for review.”
Reach-in detected in real time - response starts instantly.
Worker warned
No warning reaches the floor.
Sentinel Speaker calls the hazard out - the worker pulls back.
Machine response
The machine keeps running - nothing is halted.
Hard Stop halts the machine in ~0.8s - before contact.
Follow-up
The hazard stays open until someone reviews it.
A corrective action is created, owned, and tracked to done.
Outcome
Stops at a notification.
Prevents the injury.
YOUR CAMERAS OR OURS
Flexible coverage for every environment
Sentinel Hub offers universal compatibility, connecting seamlessly with both Sentinel devices and your existing CCTV. Start fast with the setup you already have, and expand anytime with flexible options.
SENTINEL
YOUR CCTV
Core
Thermal
Depth
Dome
Bullet
PTZ
SENTINEL HUB PRO
ON-SITE AI
RECOMMENDED FOR THIS ENVIRONMENT
Hardware tuned to the building-materials floor.
Building material production sites need visibility across hot, dusty, and hard-to-monitor areas, from kilns and furnaces to crushers, conveyors, quarry haul roads, batch plants, and mobile equipment zones. Sentinel devices help extend coverage where serious-injury risks can escalate quickly.
Explore all Sentinel hardwareKiln & furnace heat, fireSentinel Thermal Sees radiant heat from kilns and furnaces and early-stage fire.Coverage & edge computeSentinel Core / Hub Pro Wide-area coverage across quarry, yard, and plant.3D machine guardingSentinel Depth Sees reach-in at crushers, conveyors, and batch equipment in true 3D.
Sub-second machine stopHard Stop Halts a crusher or conveyor in ~0.8s on a reach-in.PROOFOur customers measure success
Our customers measure success
in injuries that didn't happen.
01The challenge
A mature safety program still carried live machine-contact exposure on the floor - and needed real-time prevention, not after-the-fact reporting.
pSIF
Machine-contact exposure live between walkthroughs
02What Intenseye did
Forward-deployed engineers embedded on the floor, deployed Sentinel Core cameras integrated with the machines already there, and built a machine hard-stop foundation - a partner-not-vendor engagement.
On-floor
Forward-deployed engineers embedded with the site team
03The outcome
A sub-second path from detection to a stopped machine - and a relationship the EHS team describes as a true partnership built on trust.
0.8s
From detection to machine hard-stop
Read the CRH storyThe Intenseye team approached this project with a level of care and operational respect that is rare in technology deployments - a true partnership built on trust.
INTEGRATIONSConnect to the systems
Connect to the systems
your team already uses.
Stream real-time safety intelligence into your EHS platform, analytics tools, and daily workflows to keep every system aligned with the latest safety data.
- Automate safety alerts, incidents, tasks, and analytics.
- Embed AI safety observations into existing EHS workflows.
- Surface the highest-priority risks automatically.
- Track urgent concerns and emerging hazard trends at a glance.
REGULATORY & COMPLIANCE
Built around the standards your plant already answers to.
Intenseye's detections map directly to the OSHA standards that drive citations and SIFs in building materials - and the leading-indicator record shows what happened and what you did about it.
1910.1053
Respirable crystalline silica
The building-materials signature - verify respiratory PPE and flag dust exposure in silica zones.
1910.147
Control of hazardous energy (LOTO)
Detect entry to crushers, mills, and conveyors that should be isolated during servicing.
1910.212
Machine guarding
Flag missing guards and reach-in at crushers, conveyors, and batch equipment.
1910.178
Powered industrial trucks & mobile equipment
Capture haul-truck, loader, and forklift–pedestrian proximity and right-of-way conflicts.
1910.146
Permit-required confined spaces
Monitor entry to and occupancy of silos and vessels, with engulfment risk.
1910.22 / .23
Walking-working surfaces
Flag falls from height on silos, kilns, structures, and stockpiles.
1910.132
Personal protective equipment
Verify hard hats, hi-vis, eye, and hand protection in the zones that require them.
MSHA
Mine Safety & Health Administration
May apply at quarries & aggregate operations - alongside the OSHA general-industry mapping.
Informational mapping - not legal advice. Standards cited are US OSHA general-industry references.
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RESOURCES
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FAQ
Your questions, answered.
Built for EHS and operations leaders. Still have a question?
Does Intenseye work with our plant & quarry cameras?
Yes - about 90% of IP cameras across 200+ brands, out of the box, indoor and outdoor. Add Sentinel only where a normal camera can't see - Traffic for mobile equipment, Depth + Hard Stop at crushers, Thermal at kilns.
How does it prevent a struck-by at a haul truck or loader?
It detects the proximity, blind-spot, or over-speed conflict the instant it happens and warns both driver and pedestrian - before contact.
Can it cover crushers, conveyors, and kilns?
Yes - Depth + Hard Stop guard reach-in at crushers and conveyors (machine stop in ~0.8s), and Sentinel Thermal covers heat and early fire at kilns, furnaces, and dryers.
Does it detect heat & early fire?
Yes - Sentinel Thermal sees heat, hot-material exposure, and early-stage fire at cement kilns and glass furnaces. It complements your fire and gas systems.
Do you use facial recognition?
No. Everything is processed on-site, anonymized, with no facial recognition or biometric identification - SOC 2 Type II.
How fast do results show?
Most producers see measurable risk reduction in under six months - fewer struck-by and caught-in exposures, and an audit-ready leading-indicator record.
SEE IT ON YOUR FLOOR
See what Intenseye can do across your operations.
Meet with our team to explore how Intenseye can help detect your top safety risks, prioritize the use cases that matter most, and bring real-time visibility to the areas where incidents are most likely to happen.